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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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Falsehood
Others
Unnecessary
Teaches
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Bounds
Save
Teach
Falsehoods
Pain
Politeness

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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
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Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame' very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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There are two sorts of content one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue the other, a vice.
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